131. I didn't say anthing about the playing field

I said that just because things are unequal, for example the inequality between a guy with one broken leg and a guy with two, that it is rather absurd to call a guy who has just broken his leg, privileged. Even though there is inequality, it would be absurd to tell a guy at a huge disadvantage that he is privileged.

As for an even playing field, of course there is not, but the un-evenness is far more economic than it is racial or especially gender. Consider the daughter of my graduate school roommate. She was born in India, and therefore is an immigrant, black and female. Yet as a Princeton graduate, I will be really surprised if she is not economically better off than any of my white nephews. Their supposed male and white privileges will be easily trumped by her economic ones. But what the heck, let's call them the privileged ones.